Seminar 12. PART iii. THE Simple Sentence: Paradigmatic Structure

Plan

1. Syntagmatics and paradigmatics of the sentence. Paradigmatic syntax.

2. Syntactic derivation. Derivation as a process of elementary transformational procedures. Six major ways of transformational procedures:

a) morphological arrangement

b) functional expansion

c) substitution

d) deletion

e) positional arrangement (permutation)

f) intonational arrangement (applying various functional tones and accents)

3. Constructional Derivation. Clausalization and phrasalization. Nominalization.

4. The predicative relations of the kernel sentence. Lower and higher predicative functions of the sentence.

Questions and Tasks:

1. What non-transformational theories do you know?

2. What does syntactic derivation imply?

3. What is considered to be the basic element of syntactic derivation?

4. Comment on the constructional relations of the kernel sentences.

5. What syntactic units are formal as the result of clausalization, phrasalization and nominalization?

6. Comment on the predicative relations of the kernel sentences.

7. What is the difference between lower and higher predicative functions of the kernel sentence?

8. Name the oppositions used to describe the predicative semantics of the sentence.

9. Disclose the meaning of the notion ‘the predicative load”.

10. Speak on the correlation between the two notions: “the loaded sentence” and “the predicative meaning”?

11. What should be done to transform an unloaded sentence into a loaded one? Give an example of a transformation in question.

References:

1. Блох, М.Я. Практикум по теоретической грамматике английского языка: учебное пособие / М.Я Блох, Т.Н. Семенова, С.В. Тимофеева. – М.: Высшая школа, 2004. – С. 337-358.

2. Блох, М.Я. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка: учеб. / М.Я. Блох. 4-е изд., испр. – M.: Высш. шк., 2003. – С. 303-313.

3. Блох, М.Я. Теоретические основы грамматики: учеб. / М.Я. Блох. – 3-е изд., испр. – М.: Высш. шк., 2002. – С. 97-142.

4. Иртеньева, Н.Ф., Барсова, О.М., Блох, М.Я., Шапкин, А.П. Теоретическая грамматика английского языка / Н.Ф. Иртеньева, О.М. Барсова, М.Я. Блох, А.П. Шапкин. – М.: Высш. шк., 1969. – С.66-143.

5. Лайонз, Дж. Введение в теоретическую лингвистику / Дж. Лайонз. – М.: Прогресс, 1978. – С. 262-285.

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